First-Class Vacation for His Parents? His Secretary Had Other Plans Chapter 09

“I told you from the start. They were my in-laws.”

“You wouldn’t believe me. Neither would Ryan.”

“You thought they were my parents, so you couldn’t have cared less.”

“I can’t believe how heartless you both were.”

“We’ve been married for years, Ryan. I’ve always treated your parents like my own. But you never did the same for mine.”

“Now that my mother’s here, let’s clear something up.”

“Mom, I need to ask you something.”

My mother stared at us, still bewildered.

But she answered me.

“What is it, Emma?”

“Have you and Dad been asking Ryan for a million dollars every month for living expenses?”

Chloe began to panic the moment I asked. My mother looked appalled.

“What? I asked him for a million dollars? Every month?”

“I’ve never done that!”

Ryan shouted back at her.

“How can you deny it?”

“I have the transfer records right here. Your daughter’s going to see exactly what kind of person you are.”

Beside him, Chloe grew more and more uneasy, though no one else seemed to notice.

Watching her, I began to understand.

Ryan pulled up the transfer records on his phone.

“Here’s the million I had my secretary send you.”

“A million every month, from last year into this year. Ten million dollars in total.”

My mother stared at the records, still baffled.

“Ryan, there has to be some misunderstanding.”

“I’ve never received a million dollars from you.”

“Check for yourself if you don’t believe me. Here’s my phone.”

She handed it to him.

Every transaction was right there.

There wasn’t a single million-dollar transfer from him. Now Ryan was the one staring in confusion.

“You never got the money? Then who’s been getting a million dollars from me every month?”

Chloe’s face drained of color.

I stepped forward and kicked her.

“Ask your secretary.”

“You put her in charge of every payment. Including the money for your parents’ trip to Valdoria.”

“You approved a million dollars, and she gave them a hundred.”

“Then she canceled their trip and dumped them in the wilderness.”

Chloe nearly fell. Ryan grabbed her by the collar, barely containing his rage.

“You said my mother-in-law asked me for a million every month. But she never asked for a cent.”

“Then where did the money I told you to send her go?”

Chloe was too frightened to speak.

Her terror only made her lies more obvious.

“You don’t need to ask. She took it.”

“She lied about my mother asking for the money, then pocketed it herself.”

Chloe tried to explain, but I cut her off.

I took out my phone and called a friend who was a lawyer, asking her for a favor.

I wanted her to check Chloe’s accounts.

For once, Ryan listened to me and waited for the results.

Twenty minutes later, we had our answer.

Chloe was only a secretary, yet she had ten million dollars in her account.

Where had it come from?

We all knew.

“You lied to me? You were the one scheming behind my back all along!”

Chloe’s lips trembled, and so did her voice.

“M-Mr. Carter!”

“I’m sorry! I’ll never do it again!”

“I didn’t know it was your parents going to Valdoria.”

“If I’d known, I never would’ve done it!”

As soon as she finished, my mother punched her in the face.

“I’ve been standing here trying to make sense of all this. Now I finally understand.”

“You wanted a million dollars, so you used my name to swindle my son-in-law.”

“Then you thought my husband and I were the ones taking that trip, so you withheld the money.”

“And your little scheme killed his parents.”

Ryan listened, looking as though he was coming apart. Then he flung himself over one of the caskets and sobbed, overwhelmed with grief and guilt.

That was when the police arrived.

Ryan had called them to report me for hitting Chloe. Now he changed his story.

“Arrest her!”

“She dumped my parents in that forest without my permission. She killed them!”

With the open caskets right in front of them, the officers could see what had happened to my in-laws.

They handcuffed Chloe without hesitation. But her arrest couldn’t bring my in-laws back.

Overcome with grief, Ryan suddenly vomited blood and passed out.

When he woke up, he’d lost his grip on reality.

I had him admitted to a psychiatric hospital and hired someone to look after him. Then I divorced him as quickly as I could. I was single again.

I went back to running my company. I would never hand my position over to anyone again.

I also fired the guard who’d kept me out.

I wasn’t keeping someone who treated me with that kind of disrespect.

After everything that had happened, I went back to visit my parents whenever I had time.

We shared meals and stories, and enjoyed our time together. Life finally felt good again.